2023-05-25 12:39 UTC
@alice@marrow.haus I’m not sure whether to be offended that you think you’re tilting at windmills to argue this stuff with me—since that would imply you think I can’t change my mind and that the discussion is fruitless.
FWIW, I haven’t had a PHP build with the mysqli extension enabled in years. Most everyone I know uses PDO instead.
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@alice@marrow.haus 2023-05-25 22:38
@ramsey@phpc.social I do apologise! My internal desire for literary reference went too far, as it occasionally does. And I’m not trying to convince you of PHP’s merits or anything; my philosophy is that of practicality beating purity (my original answer was largely in jest) and for practical problems, use the tooling most familiar to you! I had run hosting infrastructure for almost 30 years, exiting that particular specialisation ~10y ago. Many a fun tale of PHP use and abuse. 😉 Glad things have improved!